I traveled across the entire galaxy, without a freighter. it took me 7 years.
I have stared into the abyss and it stared back.
has anyone else had their mind opened by this ultimate achievement?

>>712658406 (OP)
Cool story bro.

>>712658809
discovering the worst planet in the Galaxy should win an award

>>712658406 (OP)
Elite is intentionally boring because of the low skill player base.

>>712658406 (OP)
> it took me 7 years.
It takes like a week max with a DBX or ASP and engineered components and most of that is listening to your onboard computer count backwards from 3 into a loading screen

are you retarded?

>>712658406 (OP)
Why would I play elite, the gameplay lacks depth, flight is bad, combat is little more than point and click auto aim, walking is poorly thought out and tacked on, and finally loading screens.
Nothing about it seems fun.

>>712659541
when I enter a new system, I explore it looking for the legendary Raxxla.

>>712659757
its not supposed to be fun, its an accurate simulation of the Galaxy to scale.

>>712660608
Games are supposed to be fun, if your game isn't fun it's dogshit

>>712658406 (OP)
I'm still on my way to sagitarius A. I don't play often and scan every system I go through, sometimes do exobiology for madz money later on. It'll be a while until I get there. I departed shortly before the mandalay released so I only have a jump range of 36~40 LY depending on how much fuel I have. Turning is also slow as fuck, I should have engineered that before going. It's not really important as I do only exploration but man do I dislike that slow turn rate. I passed through a JEW system last time. Nothing of value was found

>>712660901
It can be very fun if you're an autist

I found the smallest moon possible with a gravity rating of 0.0 and only 200km across. landing on it was a challenge in itself and if you jumped while on foot you went into orbit kek

>>712658406 (OP)
Got half way to Sag.A and turned back. Realised that if I get there I still have to return again. Fuck that shit. 180 jumps until the bubble.

>start up the game again
>try a bounty
>go to correct system
>scan out the right area
>warp right in
>NPC is there already killing my target
>mission failed
So fucking gay I gave up on the entire game and I have 400hrs in

>>712661502
freighters can jump 500 LY in one go, you're doing it wrong

>>712659757
You're talking about Starfield

>>712664579
No I'm talking about elite, a game as wide as the ocean and an inch deep.

>>712661502
its a depressing game when you travel so far out knowing full well its there is nothing ahead of you

>>712658406 (OP)
Fleet carriers are way slower than any exploration ship due to the spinup and cooldown times. The new squadron-based carriers coming this summer are rumored to be getting higher ranges, maybe 1000ly

>>712667097
>way slower
in raw time maybe, but it's a few clicks and then afk instead of needing to actually do everything yourself

>>712658406 (OP)
What am I supposed to do in this game?

>>712667097
what's the cooldown between jumps?

>>712668704
Do repetitive tasks to make numbers go up or down, or be one of those psychopaths who just go around blowing up other players' ships for the fun of it.

>>712669029
takes 15 minutes to start the jump, then 5 minutes of cooldown
if shit's happening and a lot of people are jumping, the 15 minutes can go up to 2 hours

>>712668704
I look on maps for ancient alien bases and go visit them

>>712669029
2 minutes for cooldown, then 15-17 to spin up the next jump. Luckily they fixed the servers that had jump times reaching close to 1.25 hours right after the colonization update and hundreds of carriers were being moved around to load commodities

>>712669221
thanks, that's put me off fleet carriers then.
all for 500ly jump, which I can get 80% of with neutron stars anyway.

>>712669221
They fixed the issue that was causing excessive jump times during big events.

>>712668704
make money by combat, trade, exploration, or mining
use that money to buy a better ship

>>712668704
Buy a VR hat, go look at stuff and be amazed

>>712658406 (OP)
>without a freighter
Cool story, reminds me of that dude who just walk forward forever in Minecraft, but what does that "without a freighter" mean?
Sounds reasonable to buy a small ship and just go for a 7 year roadtrip. What do you need freighter for?

>>712669182
>psychopaths
What is it with space games and the players who play them being absolute coward pussies?

>>712669881
He means a fleet carrier, which is like a small mobile space station. (Fun fact: Some space stations in Elite were actually jump capable and were built before they moved under their own power to their permanent location, after which the jump drives were disabled and removed - ie: Jaques Station in Colonia). You can use them to get repairs and hand in the data you collect, where before you had to carry your own limited supply of repair modules and if your ship blew up from, say, impacting a surface too hard, your data was all lost, which after spending years in the black could amount to billions of credits.

>>712670297
Who's the coward? The person in the freighter trying to run a gauntlet of players in min-maxed combat ships that don't have any interest in the cargo you may or not be carrying and just want to blow you up for the fun of it? It's not like there's a challenge, popping fat merchant ships that even with lots of defenses will last only seconds against such opponents. Gankers will often avoid other PvPers, and congregate in systems where newer players frequent to get their first bit of engineering done. It essentially makes it impossible for a cargo ship to reach its destination as the camping ganker will blow them up every time no matter what they do. That's not a fun interaction for them.

>>712670742
during one of the anti xeno station defenses, there were many ganking the people coming to fight alien
one of them I saw endlessly boasting in the elite d*scord, so looked at his profile
>joined AXI a few months before
>was dogshit at it
>got into arguments about his daddy issues
>had a complete meltdown
>got banned from AXI
>seethed about it for a while
and last but not least
>trooned out
I've never taken gankers seriously since then.

>>712667097
Cool another worthless resource sink. Did they ever add a button to pay your wingmates directly?

>>712670412
Isn't there something equal to a gas station you can stop by from time to time?
I still don't get it.

>>712672726
You can mine shit to fuel fleet carriers. Regular ships can scoop fuel. Only way to lose your ship is being retarded in a nuetron star.

>>712673357
WHAT?
Dude, I've never played Elite. Thx to you and the other post for spazzing out turbo authism but I'm not a single bit wiser. Why is
>without a freighter
a big thing?

how are the new ships?

>>712672528
The next update, called 'Vanguards', is set to come out this summer (late June/early July) and sounds like it will incorporate in-game mechanics that will make squadrons able to share resources directly instead of having to buy and swap cargo or things like that. There will be a communal bank, the aforementioned Squadron fleet carrier that will be accessible to all and have a shared bank and a store of 'rent-a-ships' that any member can use. Details haven't been completely released yet but it will probably incorporate what you're looking for from the sounds of it.

>>712672726
Regular ships gather plasma by orbiting close to stars (if they have a fuel scoop). They can also be refueled instantly when they land at any station. Fleet carriers (what OP calls a 'freighter' for some reason) use tritium as fuel, which can be bought from stations or mined from asteroids if you're out away from civilization

>>712674824
Pretty much making all the old ones obsolete. They're actually releasing the long-awaited Panther Clipper (mk 2) with the Vanguards update this summer, which will make the other large cargo ships like the Type-9 and Imperial Cutter all but useless (the cutter may survive if it's better as an cargo ship with weapons for dealing with pirate or just running since it's fast). The supercruise overcharge drives make them superior anyway since they can travel through the deep systems much faster using less fuel

>>712675032
Only took over a decade. The people in charge must be retarded

>>712676934
They can't let the folks making Scam Citizen have all the fun. Word is they turned around their financial woes and their games are turning profits again and they have the next 2 years of content and updates mapped out. They've fixed a number of longstanding issues over the last year or so after they restructured and started communicating better with the fanbase. Engineering for example is no longer the toxic grind it used to be.

>>712677589
Is the game playable single player yet
I backed this shit on Kickstarter the day before they made it always online and still have an active lifetime pass or whatever they call it but I haven’t touched it in eight years.

>>712677589
Man I don't believe you because that sounds too good to be true. No more logging on/off being the fastest way to get some engineering shit? I've always thought that the core gameplay of elite was solid while all the systems that tie it together were total dogshit. Having to use a third party tool for fucking trading was beyond pathetic.

>>712677954
There's a solo mode where you won't encounter any other players but you always need to be online because all actions affect the universe.

>>712678108
Third party tools are still the best way to find good trade routes. I don't think they'd implement something in game because a lot of effort has actually gone into those tools and they wouldn't want to make them obsolete. With engineering, they made gathering the materials a lot easier. Signal sources contain enough to fully fill a type of grade 5 manufactured materials, material rewards for missions were increased, the revamped PowerPlay sends out 'gift packages' full of materials when you gain levels with your Power, the sources for data materials were juiced up, and they took the randomness out of the actual engineering rolls, so that now level 1 always needs one roll up to level 5 always needing 5 rolls instead of the old 7-10 bs.

>>712675230
uhm..

>>712678734
They also increased the module storage from 200 to 600 so you can put away all those engineered weapons and modules without having to store them on spare ships and swap them in and out when you want to use them.